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Like most other fashion events staged during the week Her tailoring is impeccable, honed as a former assistant to design icon Andre Van Pier, whose creations in the 80s were worn by superstars such as Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Prince (Reuters) - Backstage at Dakar Fashion Week a group of young women squeeze into impossibly high heels while others sit still as make-up artists paint their eyelids a shining emerald color. All legs and cheekbones, the models are subject to the London and New York's cultural exchange has a long and fascinating history, with ideas regularly passing back and forth, whether they are around music, art, dining trends or street-style fashion – the latter two seamlessly communicated these Urban Goddess' is inspired by the feminine spirit creating She even used leaf-work of golden leather to make the collars of her black showstopper dress with a floor-skimming net train. Fabrics: The collection was an intelligent interplay MILAN (AP) — Burberry has packed up for London, abandoning Milan after a decade of menswear fealty. Giorgio Armani has scolded Italian designers who regularly show in other fashion capitals. And Donatella Versace even called for a fashion summit in a bid a high-profile global fashion event which starts on Thursday, to implement a rule that clears the backstage area of photographers and non-essential staff when models have to change clothes. Australian "plus-size" model Robyn Lawley, 22, described the Model .

Ji Wenbo is on this week’s menswear schedule. If a new wave of Chinese designers is to emerge over the next decade, Milan could be to them what Paris was to the Japanese designers in the eighties. 5. Throw better parties. If the vitality of a fashion Prada SpA (1913), Tod’s SpA (TOD) and more than a dozen Italian luxury goods makers pledged to work together to promote Milan fashion week amid concern it’s losing out to New York, London and Paris. “The name of the game is unity It’s only 6 AM here in New York City, but it’s already noon in Milan. Which means that Giorgio Armani is showing his Emporio Armani fall 2013 collection in just a few moments, and as luck would have it, we saved you a seat in the front row. One-time darling of the fashion world Christian Lacroix returns to the Paris catwalks next week with a tribute to late Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli, famed for her collaborations with Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. Saint Laurent designer and champion .